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Drive Converted ti EISA

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by lroboat

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Recently I reformated my laptop, some how in the process my backup drive turned into a EISA drive and I can no longer see the data on it only that the data is there. Anyway to retrive the data? Everything I find tells me how to convert it back but I really need my data,

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by thechas

How does your backup drive connect to your laptop?

It is possible that you are missing a driver for the laptop that is preventing you from accessing the backup drive.

Chas

by lroboat

Although the hard drive does come wiht software I had it working on more then one computer and non of them can read it now. Based on this I don't think it is either software or drivers.

by older mycroft

Was the natural format of the Recovery partition. In order to be able to mess around inside this partition, so's to copy it to the new HDD, I needed to convert the type of partition.

'partedit.exe' & 'partedit32.exe' are the tools for the job. The first being for a HDD with NTFS, the second for a FAT32 drive.

I can't remember [i]where[/i] I downloaded it from but having just Googled it, there appear numerous sources for this little program.

When you run it, it will list all your drive partitions with which format each is. To change the partition you just change the 2-digit Hex code and re-boot.

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